OREANDA-NEWS. September 12, 2007. The new school year for 280 children from Saratov orphanages, boarding schools and social rehabilitation centers started with an organ concert. A well-known German organist, Professor of Cologne High School of Music Peter Dikke played for the kids. A Distinguished Artist of Russia Anatoly Skripai together with Professor Dikke performed the finale of Bach C-major concert for two claviers and orchestra. A composite choir and a guitar ensemble “Assorti” of children’s art school No 8 performed to the accompaniment of the organ. The charity concert “Organ as a present to children” was held within the frames of the XVI International Organ Festival.

The general sponsor of the organ festival is OAO “Saratovneftegas” (a subsidiary of the company “RussNeft” ). It is not for the first time that the oilmen invite the inhabitants of Saratov to get acquainted with the world musical legacy. Thus a concert of a French organist, pianist and composer Domenico Severin took place in Saratov on June 28.  Part of the tickets to the concert dedicated to the 65th jubilee of founding of air regiment “Normandy-Neman” was distributed within the frames of charity work among the Saratov veterans of Great Patriotic War. .